The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Cascading outward, this waterfall creates the appearance of a flowing veil.

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

Small Easter eggs are hidden in the ventilation holes of the city's newest trains.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

This small museum nestled inside a souvenir shop is dedicated to Sweden's most well-known toy.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.